News Releases

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper should take some of his own advice and increase his government’s economic stimulus plan, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
April 6, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA – Le premier ministre Stephen Harper devrait suivre certains de ses propres conseils et augmenter le plan de stimulation économique du gouvernement, affirme-t-on dans une nouvelle étude...
April 6, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA – Un projet de loi controversé qui vise à modifier le régime de réglementation des grains du Canada menace la sécurité et la qualité des grains, affirme-t-on dans une étude dévoilée aujourd’...
March 31, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA—A controversial bill to change Canada’s grain regulatory system threatens Canada’s grain safety and quality, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)....
March 31, 2009 | National Office
Authors of a new study warn that private clinics selling high-tech services to screen healthy people for disease could be harming Canadians and placing an undue burden on the public health system....
March 30, 2009 | National Office, BC Office
Halifax, NS­ The Maritimes experienced an 1800 percent increase in cruise passenger numbers between 1990 and 2008. However, the author of a new Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-NS report,...
March 26, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
(Vancouver) A new report on BC’s forest industry finds that startling numbers of usable logs are being left to rot or burn at logging sites, at a potential cost of thousands of forestry jobs and big...
March 25, 2009 | BC Office
OTTAWA—Tax cuts are the worst possible economic stimulus with Bank of Canada interest rates heading to zero, and may well have a negative effect on the economy, says a report released today by the...
March 11, 2009 | National Office
(Vancouver) A new study reveals that BC’s poor and middle class families are in worse financial shape than their parents’ generation. The study, released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy...
March 10, 2009 | BC Office
Halifax, N.S. - Our safety is at risk when governments fail to respond effectively to changing heat supplies and prices, according to Larry Hughes, the lead author of two new reports released today...
March 9, 2009 | Nova Scotia Office
TORONTO – The province’s upcoming budget needs to make up for the federal government’s failed response to the economic recession, says the Ontario Alternative Budget released today by the Canadian...
March 9, 2009 | Ontario Office
OTTAWA—Monetary policy with zero or close-to-zero interest rates are not enough to pull the national and global economies out of the current recession, says a report released today by the Canadian...
February 26, 2009 | National Office
OTTAWA—The Harper government is relying too heavily on U.S. fiscal stimulus measures to pull Canada out of recession, says a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) report released today in...
February 17, 2009 | National Office
TORONTO – Without government action, the lack of adequate income security programs could plunge Ontarians suffering the worst of the current recession into dire straits, says a report by the Canadian...
February 12, 2009 | Ontario Office
(Vancouver) Next week’s provincial budget should assume BC will be in a recession in 2009 and perhaps longer – and include an aggressive stimulus plan capable of reducing the length and severity of...
February 11, 2009 | BC Office